One part of the penal apparatus employed in that hell-upon-earth, a woman's kitchen.
I am looking for--" "Take your penal apparatus and be off.
To buy or receive any article from a slave, without the consent of his master, in writing, specifying the article, is a highly penal offense.
A general permission to a slave to go at large and trade for himself as a free man, is contrary to public policy, and a violation of a penal statute.
The punishment for such offences is either penal servitude for life or for not less than three years, or imprisonment for not more than two years, with or without hard labour.
Whoever impairs, diminishes or lightens current gold or silver coin, with intent to pass same, is liable to penal servitude for from three to fourteen years (s.
Much interest has attached to the Penal Code drawn up by Edward Livingston (q.
In India thePenal Code superseded the modes of punishment under Mahommedan law, and s.
The law administered is that of the civil and penal codes of the German empire, and the court of appeal for all three Hanse towns is the common Oberlandesgericht, which has its seat in Hamburg.
But before entering on the consideration of these penal offenses, it will be well that we should relieve the labor of the task, by inquiring what crimes or offenses are not supposed to come within the purview of masonic jurisprudence.
A lodge exercises penal jurisdiction over all its members, no matter where they may reside.
Neither can a lodge exercise penal jurisdiction over the Grand Master, although under other circumstances it might have both geographical and personal jurisdiction over him, from his residence and membership.
From this list, which, extended as it is, might easily have been enlarged, it will be readily seen, that the sphere of masonic penal jurisdiction is by no means limited.
Lastly, no lodge can exercise penal jurisdiction over its own Master, for he is alone responsible for his conduct to the Grand Lodge.
A lodge exercises penal jurisdiction over all unaffiliated Masons, living within its geographical jurisdiction.
The penaljurisdiction of a lodge is that jurisdiction which it is authorized to exercise for the trial of masonic offenses, and the infliction of masonic punishment.
Thus, if two lodges be situated at the distance of sixteen miles from each other, then the penal jurisdiction of each will extend for the space of eight miles in the direction of the other.
Spanish renegades, however, are found among them, who have escaped from the praesidios, orpenal settlements.
If the risk of a few years' penal servitude on conviction gave place to the certainty of final loss of liberty, these professionals would put up with the tedium of an honest life.
The list of criminals of that type is a short one; and no one need suppose that such men would risk penal servitude for the paltry sum the cup would fetch.
What leads men like Raymond or Carr to risk a sentence of penal servitude is not a sense of want--that is a forgotten memory.
The curious observer may still see specimens in England of this well-known instrument of penal discipline: one is preserved in the parish church of Rye, Sussex, another is in the museum at Brighton.
There is a time when an attempt to dispense with it balks two of the great instincts which lie at the root of all penal law.
William the Conqueror adopted it in his penal code.
Hence all penal legislation in the past included some form of inflicting the death sentence.
It was at first a penal colony, and its Botany Bay was a name of terror to offenders.
On the other side of Bass's Straits, the island of Van Diemen's Land, was named Tasmania, and established as a penalcolony in 1803.
Nevertheless, we have written the history of our republics over and over again, without bestowing a thought on their civil and penal legislation.
Together with the consuls, they constituted the court or tribunal of every guild, and gave judgment in all commercial suits tried there; they arranged all disputes, pronounced or suggested penal sentences.
A virtuous aim is imposed upon Chinese dramatists by an article of the penal code of the empire; and those who write immoral plays are to expect after death a purgatory which will last so long as these plays continue to be performed.
As regards the offence of bigamy, for which a man commonly receives a heavy sentence of penal servitude, I think I may venture to state, without risking contradiction, that no woman during recent years has been imprisoned for this offence.
The outrageous application of the principles, if such you may call them, of Sentimental Feminism in this country in the case of the suffragettes, has made English justice and penal administration the laughing-stock of the world.
It is obvious that this argument, in addition to its being untrue, in fact opens the floodgates to brutal penal legislation all round, so far at least as the more serious offences are concerned.
It would indeed be regrettable if it could be shown that penal laws of this kind were successful.
As regards women, however, the whole conception of criminal punishment and penal discipline has altered.
His friends were told that he would probably be sent to Seoul for trial Then he was suddenly brought before the Pyeng-yang court, no time being given for him to obtain counsel, and was sentenced to six months' penal servitude.
Viscount Kim was sentenced to two years' penal servitude, and Viscount Li to eighteen months, both sentences being stayed for three years.
According to the new criminal law (judges, procurators or police) officials are liable, if they treat accused prisoners with violence or torture, to penal servitude or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three years.
He was convicted, and awarded seven years' penal servitude.
Five of them were sentenced to six years' penal servitude, and one to five years.
I would make it penal to give any credit at all, and I would admit either party to give evidence against the other party for infringement of that statute, and would be to make all debts so incurred irrecoverable by any process of law.
Do you mean that you would make it penalto give long credit for shop goods?
Were it made penal on the part of the curer to treat the bargain so, there would be less injustice done to himself, and less suspicion thrown around his integrity.
In India it is an offence voluntarily to cause disturbance to any assembly lawfully engaged in the performance of religious worship or religious ceremonies (Penal Code, s.
In his own day everyone knew him; he was a moderate man, who interceded for Royalist scholars under the Commonwealth, and tempered the penal laws to Non-Conformists, when later he was Bishop of Chester.
Article 39 of the Penal Code enacts that the person of the Chancellor is sacred, and that any individual who violently assaults him, with arms in hand, may be immediately committed to prison without trial, by her Majesty's command.
It was rather strange to have the music supplied by a Convict Band in theirpenal garb, but it was very good.
In the execution of the penal statutes, can the individual interest of the convict be reconciled with the interest of society?
The gaoler brought two men into him who had once been condemned to the gallows, and had now been convicted of the same offence again, and were preparing to return to penal servitude.
The penal code is on my side, and whatever happens our congregation and my friends on the jury will save me.
They have all been sentenced heavily, the older men to twenty years penal servitude, the younger men to penal servitude for life.
The duties of a night nurse are never very enviable or diverting at the best of times, yet penal servitude for life was a fate almost preferable to being the nocturnal guardian of old Demetrius Lapussa.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "penal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: corrective; disciplinary; grueling; punishing; punitive; retributive
